prior possession

He had unhappened her prior Possessions, so now she was being more careful.

However, players can create a new character after a short waiting period and begin again, minus all prior possessions and positions.

It had prior possession of the host, however, which gave it considerable initial leverage.

However, we wish to colonize the water world and later the jungle world also, since we hold rights of prior possession.

In nature one such asymmetry is possession - which contestant has the prior possession of the resource.

None of his or Soli's prior possessions were in evidence, except the bracelet he wore, and that was dull and scratched.

Note that Proxima Centauri, at 4.24 light-years from Earth, is about 13.37 ly from Tau-Ceti, giving us the claim of proximity while leaving the right of prior possession to the Cetians.

In the first place, actual possession is evidence of ownership, and, except in cases where ownership is based on a system of public registration, it is hard to see how any ownership can be proved, otherwise than by going back to some prior possession.

The log was not intentionally laid by the owner on the land of the plaintiff, and hence he was not a quasi-bailee for the owner, and cannot hold against the superior right of the defendant growing out of his prior possession and earlier finding of the log.

His wide reading enabled him to trace many a doctrine to the writings of forgotten thinkers; and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to draw forth such from their obscurity, and to give due acknowledgment, even if it chanced to be of the prior possession of a view or argument that he had thought out for himself.

The waif is a pennoned pole, two or three of which are carried by every boat; and when additional game is at hand, are inserted upright into the floating body of a dead whale, both to mark its place on the sea, and also as token of prior possession, should the boats of any other ship draw near.